Indian Wars: The Campaign for the American West (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781594160691)

The Indian wars remain the most misunderstood campaign ever waged by the U. S. Army. From the first sustained skirmishes west of the Mississippi River in the 1850s to the sweeping clashes of hundreds of soldiers and warriors along the upper plains decades later, these wars consumed most of the active duty resources of the army for the greater part of the nineteenth century and resulted in the disruption of nearly all of the native cultures in the West. Complete with a general history of Indian and European relations from the earliest encounters to the opening of the west, Indian Wars allows the reader to better understand the sequence of events that transformed the West and helped define the American temperament.